Texas never did have them on a game list; they were a giant PIA from the beginning. The ranchers and farmers in the county I worked in asked the Sheriff to instruct us to shoot any hog or coyote, day or night, and either leave it there or take it with us (In a patrol car - riiight). Those big ones root up holes that break tractor axels and livestock legs. There a blight on the land in Texas, yet, you find the same thing down there. Hog hunting leases have surpassed deer hunting leases. Texas is 98% fenced private property, and the ranchers and farmers are cashing in on people's desire to hunt hogs. The only ones worth eating are the small ones. Those big monsters smell so bad you'll clear a house out trying to cook the meat.
